What is the duty of care in schools and how can we work with children to ensure they are digital citizens. This presentation will provide participants with information on trends in cyber bullying, online grooming by paedophiles, inappropriate use of mobile technologies with a major focus on cyber bullying of teachers and the growing issues relating to social networking sites. A range of safety tips and resources for schools will also be provided.

1. View - Live stream video from TV 3, Campbell Live entitled, 'Kiwi architects building NZ online'

   Since Google Earth was launched two years ago it has been used in news stories to locate events, by real estate agents to sell homes, by restaurants to advertise pizza and now by countries for tourism.

2. Discussion - around the use of the New Work Order. Prepare students for the 21st Century.

   Explore examples of collaborative online learning and the application of Web 2.0 technologies in teaching and learning. The radical change (paradigm shift) to the knowledge age that parallels the movement from Web 1.0 - Web 3.0. So, if we are heading towards personalising learning, what should we be teaching?

3. Explore - a range of Web 2.0 tools - Google SketchUp, Google Earth, Google Maps, Shelfari, Netvibes (and RSS feeds and their potential for accessing professional readings), Skrbl, bubbl.us, Slideshare, del.icio.us, Vixy Net and a few more.
4. Discussion - 21st Century learners and the explicit teaching of inquiry skills and key competencies - teacher as the coach.

There is a new breed of Web 2.0 technologies that have the capacity to deliver information that is personalised and defined by the user. In addition, there is a huge variety of tools already available to connect data from disparate sources and deliver it seamlessly. This session will look at some of the present Mashup, API and Gadget/Widget engines and how they can be used in the classroom to collect relevant, data from all over the world and carry it to your desktop. It will show teachers how to create their own personalised information streams include some ideas on how this might be used in a variety of classroom-based tasks.

In a very hands-on session, participants will learn how to use Heulab software and complete classroom-based activities that are samples of actual student work. This is a “10 minute talk/10 minute do” session, aimed at showing how a variety of software can be used in a classroom. Teachers should leave this course being able to make use of all tools in a constructive manner. There will be a variety of activities aimed at different disciplines.

After being shown the basic toolsets of the Heulab suite, and practising their skills with some prepared activities, teachers will be expected to apply their own discipline knowledge to create at least one activity, for each piece of application software covered.

After successfully acquiring special funding in 2006, Rachel established online spaces for all of her classes, from Year 8 to 12, using an instance of Moodle called 'Beyond Borders'. Her students spend regular lessons in computer rooms interacting at Beyond Borders and establishing an e-Portfolio showcasing their work.

Moodle does not have a specific e-Portfolio system, but an approximation can be set up by using its existing tools creatively. A tour will be given of Mrs Collis' class web pages with an elucidation of how the project was setup, and the challenges and successes experienced thus far.

Of particular interest may be her use of Wikis and email forums, and her use of Moodle in combination with PowerPoint and Audacity.

Created in 2006, Beyond Borders (http://moodle.nbcs.nsw.edu.au/bb) provides moderated webspaces for collaborative student communities. Teachers can quickly broaden their students’ perspective of their studies by inducting them into this online environment where they can interact with peers from around the world. The Beyond Borders vibe is ‘easy’ and ‘improvised’, so teachers can drive activity as they see fit and without the necessity of planning, and with plenty of scope for students to drive activity using the Web 2.0 tools that Moodle provides. Bring the students online and then just see where things lead.

A home-grown project driven and administered by a teacher at the coal-face, Beyond Borders is free, relevant to all subjects and ages, and has grown rapidly with 100s of students from over 30 schools in 9 different countries. For the technologically shy, a step-by-step manual and tutorial videos (created with Camtasia) are available from the ‘documents’ link at the public webpage.

A tour of the website will be given, showing real examples of text chats, forums, wikis, voicemail (using the opensource program ‘Audacity’), blogs and e-portfolios, often exploiting Moodle in unexpected ways.

Participants will be saturated with ideas and real-world examples of the uses of the tools available with Moodle, as well as invited to freely make use of Beyond Borders themselves in their teaching contexts.

At the beginning of this year I began a project with six teachers where we gave each child in the school from Yrs 3 to 6 their own blog.

We now use the blogs as an online publishing medium for thoughts, opinions, artwork, poetry, digital cartooning, digital artwork, website reviews, book reviews, thinking skills, collaboration and a way to showcase the possibilities of ICTs in the primary classroom. By the time of the ELH Conference we will have mastered integrating many other technologies to our blogging projects such as podcasts, video, 3d animation, stop motion animation and much, much more.

Come along and check out our initial experiments. Hear a few stories of success and failure. Then get a few ideas for using blogs creatively in your own classroom to engage your students in the writing and creative processes.

My course is 'Hands On, Minds On' and is based on software and processes that I know work in real classroom situations. The course is designed to give delegates 'just a brief feel' of the variety and power of modern free educational software applications and web tools.

During the course I also explore processes and organisational strategies that enable teachers to implement Information and Communication Technologies in highly creative and engaging way. Course participants will leave this session with a plethora of great teaching ideas, an incredible amount of inspiration and realistic goals to implement back in their schools and classrooms.

Software (Take a deep breath and brace yourself)

Machinima (2nd Life, Cam-Studio, Movie Maker), Stopmotion animation (Monkey Jam), Podcasting (Audacity and Pod-o-Matic), Digital Story Telling and Vodcasting (Photostory 3 and Teachertube.com), My Classroom Blogging Experiments (Classblogmeister.com), Functional and Creative Photography for Blogging ( Paint.Net, Imageshack.us, jacksonpollock.org), Read and Write tools for Blogging ( The resources are ever changing for this section ) Mind Mapping (C-Map), Digital Music Making (Ejay), Digital Drawing (Inkscape), Cartoon Making using Online tools, Computer Aided Design ( Google Sketchup and Lego Digital Designer), Robotics (Mindstorms NXT robot), 3D animation (Anim8or)

This session is designed to expose teachers to some of the software available specifically for Tablets and proven teaching strategies used in the classrooms at Frankston High School. It is aimed at the beginner level and delegates will have their own Tablet laptop (provided on the day) to explore software programs and teaching ideas. The types of software being utilised will include:

• Microsoft office
• Tablet Flash
• Music composition tool
• Microsoft OneNote
• ArtRage2
• Equation Writer
• Heulab - Fun With Construction

Come along and play with Tablets to see whether you think they are a useful tool in teaching and learning... we certainly do.

This session will provide an overview of how Canberra Grammar School has used the ‘Edukite’ web-based e-portfolio to enhance school/home communication and therefore connectivity.

Delegates will hear how the partnership between the software development company and the school successfully enhanced the product, how it was introduced to teachers, students and parents and how over twelve months Edukite has become an important part of our connected community.

Participants will have the opportunity through exploring the program, to discover the ease with which they can communicate with their students and parents, post assignments and homework and provide resources that students may use at home to complete set tasks.

OneNote, Shared Session and Fun with Construction software will be used to demonstrate how the flexibility of Tablet use sets students and teachers free. Workshop would include a "OneNote" shared session for developing work, a shared session "Snap Test" and a "Fun with Construction" task using layers.

How to use other software with OneNote, as a classroom workbook. Tablet PCs will be used, with OneNote, Excel, Word, Ink Art, Ink Flash Cards and Snipping tool.

Traps and tricks for setting up the equipment to take successful 360 degree panoramic shots for inclusion in a website.

This is a regional Geography unit based on the North West Cape. During Year 10 all Hale boys attend a compulsory outdoor education week which is centred south of Exmouth on the eastern side of the cape. Consequently, this unit was planned to provide boys with a background to the area.

Regional geography arguably holds the most potential for IT possibilities. Although traditionally it has been difficult for students to envisage the geography of relatively remote regions, the use of Google Earth, the internet, and digitised photographs has enabled students to essentially conduct a virtual field trip. Other applications such as Microsoft Class Server, Learning Federation Objects, Microsoft office and Corel RAVE may be used to then provide less traditional learning experiences.

The challenge for teachers and support staff is how to bring all of this together into a single access point.

This year saw the launch of Ivanhoe Grammar School's new intranet/extranet portal - MyIvanhoe. Our core mission was to ensure that we could use this medium to communicate more effectively with our entire school community. Through the use of the Blackboard Learning System - Staff, Students, Parents and Alumni can login and access information that is personalized to them. Whether it be information pertaining to the courses and materials being studied, school reports, upcoming events or community groups they are participating in, all relevant information can be accessed through the one central space - MyIvanhoe.

We will explore how this new site was launched to our community and the many features it comprises;

• Interactive Learning
• Community Development
• Centralised Content Repository
• eCalendars
• eReporting
• Online Payments
• eDiaries – replacing student diaries and provide for online homework planners and eCommunication between teachers, pastoral staff and parents

If your school uses the Synergetic Management System, we will show how information from this system has been integrated into MyIvanhoe.

As with all online information, we must ensure that it is secure and easy to navigate. Through the use of a Firepass device supplied by F5 Networks, MyIvanhoe can now provide access to many different services through a single sign-on and common branding. Moving between learning, community, email, online calendars and student information has never been so simple.

This Discovery session will be based around a reflective account of how I went about developing a structure to allow my Year 11 VCE Biology Student to produce higher quality learning artefacts through a process of choice and discussion. The project resulted in the development of research tasks that allowed students the scope to learn in a preferred style, but not be allowed to continually produce work in the same fashion.

The aim of the session is to unpack the processes we go through in the development of programs and structures so as to form a set of guidelines and ideas to help other teachers move more swiftly through "development" and into "delivery". Although the context of the material will be science-based the outcome - a set of ideas, principles and processes - could be applied to any subject area.

The extended units for the 'Make Maths Real' program were developed to engage students with authentic investigations using mathematics and a range of notebook applications. Each unit has a real life focus, such as selecting a mobile phone plan, planning a dinner party or designing a kitchen. The units begin with a general introduction to the concepts central to the topic and then, through a series of technology-based activities, build the understandings required to solve a challenging problem. As these units aim to place mathematics in a real life context, some components of the units are drawn from disciplines other than mathematics. Each unit runs for between 6 and 8 sessions. Each unit features a range of software applications, including internet browsers, spreadsheets, concept mapping and presentation software.

This session focuses on students as designers of their own electronic portfolios. It is inspired by the vast array of web2.0 tools now available to us, encouraging the user to develop material to be published and shared online. Students use web authoring, presentation and mindmapping software along with the web itself to publish portfolios that are student-centred and that demonstrate active learning. The session focuses predominantly on the use of multimedia to reflect on and record learning. A variety of technologies are used in the development of the portfolios.

The software predominantly used in the session will include Inspiration, PowerPoint and Dreamweaver.

Stephen has used Camtasia to create a range of instructional video casts accessible by his students from school or at home. Camtasia allows the speedy creation of videos from a webcam, by capturing the computer screen, or by turning a PowerPoint into a narrated video. A range of tools allow for the addition of graphics, subtitles, and for the editing of the audio track, and of course multiple videos can be edited.

Camtasia exports in a wide range of formats, although the most impressive is the feature-rich and size-efficient Flash format. Teachers can insert Flash quizzes or 'Flash hotspots' into their videos, and branch the video depending on user response.

The video can be made available to students via an LMS. Uploading the video using the Moodle LMS will be quickly demonstrated.

Some comments will also be made on the potential for videos in education, with a passing reference made to 'teachertube.com' where educators can share video resources.

Testing student knowledge can be tedious but by making the process interactive and self marking, a great deal of the drudgery can be removed. During this session we will consider some of the material available on the Internet and then look at some simple ways of generating interactive quizzes for students which are self marking and use readily available software. You will also be introduced to Keepad technology which can turn a PowerPoint presentation into an entertaining, interactive quiz where every student participates and gains instant feedback on what they know in an enjoyable relaxed setting.

In this session I will briefly outline aspects of the St Hilda's School program and demonstrate practical examples including:

• Podcasting and RSS distribution (staff and student examples)
• Art@StHilda's (our online virtual gallery of student work)
• Access to curriculum resources via our Blackboard LCMS
• Interactive whiteboard use from K-12
• Exchanges of student work between St Hilda's and Cincinnati Country Day School (USA) and Bishops (South Africa)

We will then embark on a practical session using the sound editing program Audacity 1.2.6

In this session we will look at how to record and edit sound files and mix them down into MP3 Podcasts that include background music, voice overs, and various sound effects. We will then look at how they can be shared via iTunes, iPods, office Suite, your school Intranet or RSS distribution. We will also look at copyright with regards to Podcasting and how you can access Podsafe music for inclusion in your Podcasts.

This discovery session will give the participants a brief overview of a Year 7 Science project. The project included an excursion to the zoo and research on Australian animals. To support their findings the students were asked to represent their research by producing a digital plan of a proposed animal enclosure for their local area. Most students embraced the 3D drawing quality that Google Sketchup could offer.

Learn how to produce a 3 Dimensional drawing of an object/space by expanding a sample conceptual design. This skill can be applied to multiple learning disciplinary's.

Software to be used: Google Sketchu- demonstration on how to complete a plan of a zoo enclosure. Google SketchUp is an easy-to-learn 3D software. It combines a simple tool-set with an intelligent drawing system that enables you to build and modify 3D models quickly and easily.

In this session Andrew will discuss the impact that podcasting, vodcasting and discussion boards have had on student learning. He will show how it is possible to create a 24/7 virtual classroom that enables students to learn at the times that best suit them and in ways that best suit them. Paradoxically, teaching this way reduces teacher workload, reduces student stress, improves student learning and VCE results and frees up valuable class time to do activities that were previously not possible because of "pressure to get through the course before the exam!"

While the main focus of the session will be on the benefits of podcasting, and on idea-sparking examples of the work of teachers at his school, Andrew will also demonstrate the software and hardware he uses and recommends, so that participants can leave knowing what they need to do to create their own virtual classroom.

Want to get an intensive introduction to the new Web technologies that are beginning to transform education?

This five-hour, hands-on workshop will not only teach you how to use the tools, it will also put you well on the way to implementing them in your personal practice. Topics covered will be Weblogs, Wikis, Podcasts, social bookmarking, photo-sharing, screencasts and more with an emphasis on the pedagogies required for successful use with students. You'll leave with a slew of new skills and practical applications for 21st Century Learning.

See how the Scholaris Learning Gateway integrates your current school systems with exciting and intuitive new tools and resources to provide a centralised information and learning management resource.

This session will provide an overview of Scholaris as a school portal solution, including areas for communication and collaboration, information and knowledge management and learner management. Key tools within the portal include, Student Information and Alerts, Timetables and class lists, daily bulletins and newsletters, resource booking, curriculum planning and documentation, assessment and parent communications.

As Learning Technologies Coordinators at Penrhos College we work at many levels, one of which is to assist teachers with their curriculum planning and the integration of various technology tools.

In this session we would like to work with you on your ideas, help you improve your awareness of the available tools and their use in engaging students in learning in your classroom.

In this session participants will use Illustrator and Dreamweaver to create an interactive comic. The interactive comic is a great way to introduce students to the potential of Dreamweaver and Illustrator. The workshop begins with an introduction to Illustrator whereby participants use many of the features of this progamme to create graphics and text. The assets created in Illustrator are then placed in Dreamweaver whereby particpants will add video, audio and photos to create a 3 to 5 page interactive comic. The course is suitable for teachers wanting a practical workshop that will allow them to work across a range of software programmes.

In particular teachers of Media, Multimedia, English, Graphic Design and Information Technology would find this workshop of value.